Need to Know

DEFINITELY NOT A HOTEL

Perhaps the biggest difference from a hotel is that we cannot accept spontaneous (early) arrivals. We must expect you and be ready to welcome you on-site. Please contact us at least 24–48 hours in advance to request an earlier than standard/booked arrival time. Late arrivals (later than 9:00 PM) are never a problem if we are aware in advance. Leave a message in the comments box when reserving, or contact us prior to making your reservation.
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TRANSPORT

You will need a car to reach us and to consider a stay at this location. Read Why You Need a Car To Enjoy Rural Tuscany

LOCATION

Our carefully chosen location is an ideal launch pad for discovering Southern Tuscany. Read Where to Base Yourself in Tuscany as well as an idyllic home base for lazy poolside days. A typical stay is around five nights long.

FOOD

We offer the opportunity to prepare your own food and drinks while you are with us (from 5 PM on arrival day). It’s easy to rustle up a gourmet meal in this area, with virtually no actual cooking, and impossible to resist the local specialties (cheeses, cured meats, wines) offered in the hill towns. We have a double-equipped independent modern kitchen, set in the garden, exclusively for guests.

LOCAL RESTAURANTS

We are well-served for eating out, with several excellent restaurants close by—including a historic steak house at our neighbor’s organic ranch, one mile away. There are good places to enjoy local specialties within a few minutes’ drive in all directions. Read about our local favorites on our Local Restaurants page. Weekend nights must be booked in advance. We are happy to reserve for you; email us.

PLEASE NOTE

Nothing, including supermarkets, is accessible on foot!

BREAKFAST

Malvin rises early to bake fresh bread and patisserie for our guests, preparing a different breakfast each day. You can expect home-baked bread, muffins, tarts, brownies, cakes or other fresh-from-the-oven favourites, served with seasonal fruit, strained Greek-style yogurt, and Malvin’s own preserves made with perfectly ripe fruit from our orchard.
Breakfast is served from 9:00 AM.

THE FARM

This property is essentially a luxury homestead or ‘Podere’ and we continue the tradition of keeping some heritage breed livestock. We raise a rare breed of bantam, once typical residents of Tuscan farmhouses until disappearing in the 1950s—the Muggelese. We also have mute (silent) ducks and two trios of Romagnolo Geese. As an Agriturismo (or farm stay), our crops include saffron and olive oil.